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Birds at the local canal and nature reserve

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Antique Eruption
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Re: Birds at the local canal and nature reserve
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Alan Hewitt Photo wrote:

Great work! It's also a good example of how good the XF100-400mm can be!

Antique Eruption wrote:

Worth mentioning that the choice of wide apertures and close-ish proximity has of course led to OOF areas on the birds. I like the effect, but it probably isn't for everyone.

I often hear this and like you, I'm of the opinion that as long as the head, beak and eye are sharp - this is usually where we look at a bird photograph and it's composed well - then I'm not usually bothered about wings, legs trailing out of the depth of field. It's a very fine line between closing the aperture down to get front to back subject depth of field to also making foreground and background distractions more problematic.

Thanks Alan - I agree about that balance between sharp focus in the right places and potentially distracting backgrounds. I have a few tricks up my sleeve to remove some distraction in LR (inverted subject masks, negative texture and sharpness, etc.), and Topaz also helps massively. The trick then is trying to avoid over smoothing. Keeps me honest, trying to walk that particular line!

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